Asa: Hello again!

Ang3l: So here is another chapter for you awesome people out there!

Asa: Specifically Outcast001 and pizzafan123. Thank you for the great reviews, Ang3l and I now know this story is getting at least some attention. *High fives Ang3l*

Ang3l: But lets not get too excited yet. This is only the second chapter! I don't really know how I did in this one so some opinions would be great.

Asa: And before we forget, Outcast001 has asked for the possibility of other OC's in this story.

Ang3l: Right! And to that I say, if you have any ideas of an OC you want to see in this story, send in a review or PM with the info you think I would need to know about a character you want and I will see what I can do! This applies to everyone by the way:) I may not be able to include all of them if a lot of people start asking or they may only play a small part in the story but I'll work it out.

Asa: Enough jabbering! On with the story!

Ang3l: Yeah, yeah... I don't own One Piece or Coca Cola (Which I forgot to mention last time)

Chapter II

Death

I really hadn't expected to wake up. But when I did there was nothing. I saw nothing, I felt nothing, there was just… nothing. I was completely dry, which was odd for having just been in a storm. My backpack and camera were gone leaving me with only my worn blue jeans and black V-neck T-shirt. I wasn't even wearing socks or shoes.

I was dead.

I had to be.

I knew this, and yet I was still quite calm regardless. I didn't feel scared or upset.

In the white nothingness around me black smoke started to form on the ground. It swirled and twirled until it created a human figure in a long robe. The hood was up and the person face was tipped at an angle that wouldn't allow me to see any features.

"I'm dead." I spoke up, my voice sounding clear and concise.

The figure nodded slowly.

"Are you Death?"

Another nod.

"So then, what happens now?"

"You are still needed by the gods. I have been ordered to send you back." Death said, his voice sounding too familiar for my likings.

"Send me back?"

"Yes. But not to your world. You are needed somewhere else."

"What about Aunt Terra and Uncle Garrett?"

"They will continue to live their lives, you will have connections with them from time to time, though it might hurt."

I could only nod, not really sure how to take this all in.

"To live again will be quite the adventure." I said. I swear I saw a small smile on his lips from under the hood. Suddenly the white area surrounding us started to crack and crumble. Death started to fade away and my vision got blurry.

Just before I completely passed out, a voice echoed through my mind. "If you every want to escape this ridiculous biological paradox that is reality, you must choose between insanity or death. Your journey will be a tough one. Good luck, Asa."

Everything hurt. My throat was dry and swore and my eyes burned.

Where was I? Was what happened real? Did I really die?

My senses slowly came back and voices broke through my foggy thoughts.

"Is she okay?"

"What was she doing in the water?"

"She must be a mermaid!"

"Mellorine~!"

"Idiot! She's not a mermaid, mermaids have tails!"

"Qwauck!"

"Is she breathing?"

I groaned in annoyance. These people were too loud! Wait… people? I thought I was dead? That's when I suddenly remembered what the man in the cloak had said. I bolted upright, coughing and gagging on the water that was trying to leave my body. I felt a hand placed on my back and slowly rubbing circles, comforting me just as my Aunt would've if I was sick or upset.

I slowly recovered from my coughing fit and opened my eyes, looking around. The first, obvious thing I noticed was that I was on a ship, not a huge one but it was notably bigger than the dingy I was previously in. The second thing I noticed was the people surrounding me. They all seemed to be roughly my age, if not a little older.

"Sanji! Go get her some water." The red haired women who was kneeling beside me, one hand on make back and one on my shoulder, supporting me, ordered to a blonde man with a swirly eyebrow who seemed a little too eager to fulfill the request.

"Yes Nami-swaaaan!" He exclaimed, dashing off. The red head, or Nami, looked over at me again.

"Are you alright?" She asked with a worried frown.

"Y-yeah" I responded hoarsely. Sanji came back with a glass of water and I chugged it down in no time, enjoying the moist feeling as I did. Handing the glass back, I took in the other people.

There was a scary looking guy with three swords and green hair, a long nosed boy wearing a bandana and overalls and a boy with raven hair peeking out from under his straw hat and a curved scar under his left eye. The Straw hat kid was sitting cross legged not too far away and he had a large grin on his face.

"Where am I?" I spoke up, my voice sounding a lot better.

"You're on our pirate ship!" Straw hat kid answered. Pirates? I think these people are a few years too late to be pirates. I gave them a strange look but decided to drop it. Still… something about this place seemed unusually familiar…

My thoughts were cut off when a rose was shoved in my face. How did he get a rose? We're in the middle of the ocean! More importantly, where was he keeping it? Actually… I don't wanna know…

"Ah, your beauty rivals even the most gorgeous of flowers. Your blue eyes glisten like the ocean in the sun! I must know your name, fair maiden."

I blinked and blushed, feeling flattered at his kind words. "I-It's Asa." I stuttered, embarrassed.

Before he could continue with his poetic compliments a voice interrupted him. "Oi, Don't scare her off now curly-brow."

Sanji whirled around and glared at the green haired man, proceeding to insult him with some 'moss-head' comments that started a full on fight. Before it could get too serious though, Nami bashed her fist into both of their heads, causing them to drop like flies.

Yes… very familiar.

I just couldn't place my finger on it though.

"Hi Asa, My name's Nami, this is Vivi and Carue these two are Sanji and Zoro, that's Ussop and-" She introduced, gesturing to each person in turn, only to be cut off by the straw hat kid.

"I'm Luffy! I'm gonna be the king of the pirates!"

No. Freaking. Way.

"You don't by any chance mean Monkey D. Luffy, do you?" I asked standing up, hoping to whatever gods out there that this couldn't be true. Much to my dismay though, Luffy nodded excitedly. My shoulders dropped and I visualized the last of my hope being thrown out a window.

Suddenly a thought occurred to me, cosplayers! That had to be it! Just a bunch of very strange people who had nothing better to do with their lives, then to adapt an anime characters way of life.

It did look pretty realistic though…

That's when I noticed my backpack lying on the deck. I gasped and ran over to it, lifting it up and looking around it for any sign of my camera. Quickly unzipping the bag, I shuffled through its contents. It had to be here! It had to! I gasped in excitement when I saw the familiar device at the bottom of the bag. Thank goodness.

I pulled it out, wrapping the strap around my neck.

"Wow! What's that?!" I jumped and fumbled with the camera, almost dropping it, if it hadn't been for the strap.

"Don't scare me like that!" I yelled at Luffy, putting a hand on my chest to calm my beating heart.

"Shishishishi sorry!" I pouted at him, he didn't sound very sorry.

"It's a camera." I told him, turning it on, flipping over the screen and scanning through previous pictures. I needed to make sure I had gotten the one of the storm, otherwise it would have been all for nothing.

"Camara?" He repeated trying to pronounce it. I gave him an odd look. Alright these people were taking their hobby way to seriously.

"Camera. You know, like taking pictures?" I was met with a blank stare.

"Oh! Wow, I've never seen one so high-tech before!" Ussop said, leaning over Luffy's shoulder. "So what were you doing in the ocean anyway?"

"Oh, I was caught in a storm." I said looking back at my pictures, I finally reached the one I was looking for and gave it a calculating stare. It wasn't bad… especially considering the rough conditions I took it in. The picture perfectly captured the ominous feeling that the black clouds portrayed, the rain streaked across the image in a direction that showed just how strong the wind actually was and the water was a still version of the 80 foot wave that had brought my demise.

I turned the camera around and showed Ussop the image, he gasped. "You survived that?!" His exclamation brought the rest of the crew's attention to us and they came over to see the picture. They all had similar reactions.

I nodded, turning the camera back to myself and flipping through more pictures. I stopped when I noticed one that I had taken not a week before. It was an image of me holding up a new poster I had bought, the picture itself was taken by my Aunt. On the poster was none other than Monkey D. Luffy himself, smiling away like he didn't have a care in the world. I frowned and looked up at the Luffy standing before me.

I blinked and he blinked back. I looked back at the picture and back at him.

I changed the settings on my camera and raised it up, looking through the sight and pointing it a Luffy. "Hey, Luffy? What's your dream again?" I asked as I flipped the flash on.

"Ah! To be the king of the pirates!" His face lit up and he gave a wide grin, resting his hand on his hat.

Perfect

I snapped the picture before he could move.

Luffy blinked and rubbed his eyes at the bright flash. When his sight cleared I held up the picture for him to see. He grinned and laughed. I flipped through the pictures again, going back and forth between the poster Luffy and this Luffy. They were exactly the same!

But how could this be…

I have been ordered to send you back.

Send me back?

Yes. But not to your world. You are needed somewhere else.

Okay, calm down. Don't go all fan-girl on them. Breath in, breath out. It's nothing special, you were just sent into your favorite anime in history, and now have a legit picture of Monkey D. Luffy that was neither drawn nor found on the internet. No biggy.

Oh who am I kidding!

"S-so where are you all heading?" I asked after a few moments of calming my inner fan-girl. No need to tackle anyone right now. I figured since they had Vivi with them it had to be either to Little Garden, Drum Kingdom or Alabasta. But considering Nami looked as healthy as ever I could rule out Drum. Also, by the fact that I couldn't see Chopper anywhere, it was safe to rule out Alabasta as well. So that left…

Little Garden.

Great.

"Well right now, we're trying to get Vivi back home to Alabasta, so we're following the log pose." Nami explained to me. I nodded in understanding and turned to Vivi.

"It's an honor to meet you princess Vivi." I greeted bowing at the hip.

"Ho-how did you know I was a princess?" Vivi asked embarrassed. I stood up straight and gave her a warm smile.

"Let's just say I'm familiar with this area… and most of the grand line. But by the way you're going, you must be headed to Little Garden then."

"That's right."

It didn't take very long for everyone to get accustomed to me being on the ship. Not to say that they trusted me just yet, but Nami was kind enough to share some of her older clothes with me while my other ones dried. When I was through changing, I walked out on deck, still barefoot (having turned down Nami's offer of shoes. I liked it this way better for some reason.) and sporting a dark blue T-shirt and simple jean shorts.

I scanned the deck, taking in what each person was doing. Zoro seemed to be napping but I could tell he was keeping a close eye on me, Nami went to tend to her orange trees, Vivi was relaxing on a beach chair, Sanji, I assumed, was in the kitchen and Luffy and Ussop just looked plain bored.

I smirked and walked over to where I left my bag. Crouching down I opened it up and pulled out my bottle of Coke.

This will entertain them for a bit.

I walked over to where the boys were pouting on the ground and sat with them.

"Hey. Do you want to try something?" I asked, showing the bottle. Ussop looked at me skeptically, taking in the red and white label. He probably thought I would poison him or something.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Where I'm from, it's called pop." I knew that this world had Cola, considering Franky drank it all the time but I had always assumed it was different from my world's form of the drink, always picturing it to taste kind of like extremely carbonated booze or something.

Luffy took the bottle from my hands and shook it next to his ear causing the contents to slosh around violently. "What's it taste like?"

I took it back from his hands quickly. "Don't shake it up!"

I gently set the bottle in between all of us and reached to untwist the red cap. Ussop and Luffy watched my every move attentively. The moment I popped the seal on the bottle, the cap shot out of my hand and into the air, followed by a fountain of Coke flying out of the bottle and spilling on the deck. When the liquid calmed down and resettled at the bottom of the bottle, I noticed at least a quarter of the beverage had spilled.

Luffy and Ussop were silent for a moment, staring wide eyed at the bottle.

"That was awesome!" They exclaimed, simultaneously. I laughed and took a swig of the drink before passing it to Ussop. He took the bottle hesitantly, despite his earlier excitement. Glancing back at me and noticing I hadn't dropped dead yet he took a gulp as well.

The moment the drink was in his mouth he winced and all most spit it out but forced himself to swallow it. He coughed and stuck out his tongue.

"Did it not taste good?" Luffy asked confused.

"It… felt weird, almost… fuzzy?" The sniper looked at me for an explanation. I returned with a shrug.

"It's supposed to be like that."

He passed the bottle to Luffy who took a gulp too. He blinked and looked at me.

"It burned the back of my throat…"

I raised an eyebrow at the two. "So, neither of you liked it then? Oh well, more for me." I reached to take the bottle from Luffy. The straw hat wearing boy yanked the bottle from my reach. "Are you kidding? It was delicious!" I looked at him with wide eyes, knowing what was coming.

"Luffy…" I said in a warning tone. In quick succession he shot me a grin and bolted across the deck. "Hey!"

"Oi, Luffy! I want some more too!" I heard Ussop call as I took off, chasing the rubber idiot. I saw him take another drink as he banked right, going around the mast. After multiple laps of the deck, Luffy had finally finished the bottle and I was out of breath. Putting my hands on my knees in exhaustion, I watched Luffy walk up to me with a content smile on his face.

He handed the empty bottle back to me, laughing. "You know, there is such thing as sharing right?" I said, glaring at him.

He just shrugged at me. Ussop finally caught up looking equally pissed off. "Luffy! That wasn't fair!"

"We can always buy some more." He said, looking over at me. I shook my head.

"Actually we can only get this stuff from my home town."

"Oh well then we'll just get some when we drop you off at your home." Luffy said. I frowned.

"I-It's alright, I can get home on my own. I just need a boat." I told him. I really didn't want to stay here too long, who knows what I might screw up in the plot line! Besides, Luffy would never ask me to join his crew. I wasn't really all that special or exciting. Even though I did love being here, I couldn't make them stray away from their goals right now. Vivi didn't need more setbacks than what she would be getting.

"Hmm, well if you're sure." I nodded.

"We might have to wait until the next inhabited island though. We don't have any extra boats right now." Ussop said. So at the latest, I could sail with them until they reached Alabasta. That is to say that Drum Kingdom didn't have any boats for me to take. Well I guess I could live with that…

A few hours later we finally reached Little Garden.

"So this is Little Garden." Luffy said, as we sailed down a river that cut through the island.

"What the hell do they mean by 'little'?" Zoro asked, taking in the huge trees and jungle plants. I stared at the island with growing excitement. It was one thing to see this in the anime but to see it in real life was… thrilling!

"It doesn't look nearly as cute as its name…" Nami said, sounding disappointed.

"This is like unexplored territory! An untamed jungle!"

"Ah come on Ussop! Where's your sense of adventure?" I asked, smiling at the shaking teen.

"We have to be careful…" Vivi murmured "I'm still concerned about what Miss All-Sunday said."

"D-D-Does that mean there's gonna be monsters?!" Ussop started shaking harder and if I didn't know him, I would have thought he was having a seizure.

"Who knows." The captain said, uncaring.

"Let's just go to the next island without stopping here!"

"That's not how it works on the Grand Line Ussop." I chipped in.

"Right," Nami agreed. "We need time to set the Log."

"That, and it's about time we picked up some provisions. We didn't get to stock up at the last town." Sanji explained.

Nami walked over to the railing and pointed out at the forest ad we passed by. "Take a look at those plants. Those aren't in any botany book I've ever seen."

Nami and Ussop screeched and covered their ears at the sound of a loud caw. Sanji making some sort of comment about Nami being cute.

"What was that?" Nami exclaimed looking around nervously. Sanji began spouting nonsense about how he would protect her and didn't notice the over-sized bird coming up behind him, claws bared.

"Sanji! Look out!" I ran over and shoved the unaware cook out of the way. The bird swooped down, one of its claws catching my upper arm. I shrieked when my feet were no longer touching the deck and I was hanging from the large talon, 20 feet in the air.

"ASA!"

I tore at the bird, trying to pry the claw off of my shoulder. I suddenly felt something strange. Something… dark. My eyes started to burn but instead of feeling pain I found myself enjoying it. As if second nature, I moved my hand in a motion similar to picking something up. Bellow me I witnessed the water from the river shift until a small stream was flying in my direction. The bird circled the ship, unaware of the eminent danger.

With a violent flick of the wrist, the once snake like stream morphed into a spear. Another flick and the spear was racing towards the bird, striking right through its foot. The bird squawked and released its hold on me. My arms flailed as I fell through the air, screaming.

SPLASH

My head broke the surface and I gulped in air. "ASA! Are you alright?" I swam to the shore and climbed up the bank.

"Y-yeah, just a bit spooked." I called back. Little did I know, while I was a bit pre-occupied with the bird, the straw hats had contemplated my reason for saving someone I hardly knew and putting my life in danger in the process. They were startled out of their thoughts when the bird gave a loud screech and the next thing they knew, I was hurdled into the water.

All this took place in no more than a few seconds.

By the relieved sighs and lack of excited questions from Luffy, I had assumed that they didn't see my little water trick. I looked down at my hands, noticing that my eyes didn't burn anymore. How did I do that? I didn't eat a Devil's Fruit did I? No… I wouldn't have been able to swim out of the river.

I remembered noticing a startling fact, as the water spear was flying towards the bird and I.

The water wasn't its clear, if slightly blue color anymore.

It was pitch black.

Asa: Wow... That was a bit of a long one.

Ang3l: I try:)

Asa: And what was with attacking me with a bird!?

Ang3l: That was cool right! Here watch me do it again! *Whistles*

Asa: W-wait wha-! *Get's carried off by massive bird* Curse you!

Ang3l: Ah... The joys of being an author;)

Until next time!